John Carmack Frags Dedicated PPUs

HellasVagabond · Jul 19, 2007

"I'm not a believer." That was john carmack's responce when asked about his opinion of dedicated PPU cards. He said that he believes multi-core cpus are a much better base for developers to use for physics calculations especially due to their fast spread in the market. Carmack is following the path that was laid by Valve Software's Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Crytek's Crysis and Remedy's Alan Wake which all three do advanced physics calculations using multi-core cpus. So far 2 of the few games that fully support AGEIA are Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 1/2 and the upcoming Unreal 2007.

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d44ve · Jul 19, 2007

HellasVagabond said:
So far 2 of the few games that fully support AGEIA are Tom Clancy's Ghost Reckon 1/2 and the upcoming Unreal 2007.

Source: Bit-Tech

there will be a reckoning with those ghosts

HellasVagabond · Jul 19, 2007

Come onnnnnnn

d44ve · Jul 19, 2007

HellasVagabond said:
Come onnnnnnn

You know I had to point it out!

I am just playin with you

HellasVagabond · Jul 19, 2007

I know but you could do that in a PM

d44ve · Jul 19, 2007

HellasVagabond said:
I know but you could do that in a PM

You could have PM me too... but you didnt

besides, this is more fun.

L|NK|N · Jul 19, 2007

Jess Stingray · Jul 19, 2007

Carmack knows what he's talking about... after all, he owns video games, pretty much.

"And then Carmack said 'Let there be DOOM' and DOOM was created."

Best damn FPS ever.

Kreij · Jul 19, 2007

I agree with Mr. Carmack.
Unless they start putting dedicated PPUs directly on the MoBos I doubt I will ever get one.

On another note :
I see at least five other spelling/grammar errors in the first post, but I won't point them out

HellasVagabond · Jul 19, 2007

( That does it , im getting FireFox with the spelling check addon !!

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d44ve · Jul 19, 2007

HellasVagabond said:
( That does it , im getting FireFox with the spelling check addon !! )

You know that you can use iespell, right?

Just click the "abc" icon in the top right of the new post window

HellasVagabond · Jul 19, 2007

iespell is an addon or is it with the site ?

d44ve · Jul 19, 2007

HellasVagabond said:
iespell is an addon or is it with the site ?

It is an addon that this site points you to when you click on "abc"

however, you can use it with any website.

You just right click and click "check spelling"

Its a great tool

insider · Jul 19, 2007

The Physx cards by AGEIA are far too expensive and their performance even compared to a Geforce4 card is weak (in terms of it's overall processing power), I'd have bought one if they were £20-£30 max (that's all they are worth really), but £100+ no chance!

DaMulta · Jul 19, 2007

d44ve said:
Its a great tool

it's

lol I'm one to talk

Darksaber · Jul 19, 2007

Well guys...wait and see ^^ Review should be coming shortly.

BTW: Unreal Tournament III will also use the card

cheers
DS

d44ve · Jul 19, 2007

DaMulta said:
it's

lol I'm one to talk

Well hell, why don't you just put in the rest of the punctuation too? Quit being lazy!

lol

cdawall · Jul 19, 2007

they cant do anything top big they USE PCI which is slow thus they dont do anything important so i wont buy a PPU

insider · Jul 19, 2007

cdawall said:
they cant do anything top big they USE PCI which is slow thus they dont do anything important so i wont buy a PPU

Actually the AGEIA Physx cards don't even use up anywhere near the available bandwidth of the PCI bus, PCI-E ain't even needed just for Physics calc.

cdawall · Jul 19, 2007

insider said:
Actually the AGEIA Physx cards don't even use up anywhere near the available bandwidth of the PCI bus, PCI-E ain't even needed just for Physics calc.

ok it so it does almost nothing

just use your X1k series card to do the calcs prob solved

WarEagleAU · Jul 19, 2007

Well, Id like to believe Physix Cards have a use, Lord knows a few games Ive installed (Tomb Raider Anniversary, Lost Planet Extreme Condition, etc) had to have me install the driver/software for Ageia Physix processors even though I dont use one.

OnBoard · Jul 20, 2007

Multi-core ftw. I mean if the game already uses both core (or four) and would still need a physics card, then there's something wrong with it

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